Big Announcement

by sinis 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • sinis
    sinis
    Special Campaign October 16-November 12!


    1. “The End of False Religion Is Near!” That is the titles of the Kingdom News No. 37, which will be distributed around the world beginning next month. During the first half of October, we will offer the Watchtower and Awake! magazines. Starting Monday, October 16th, through Sunday, November 12, we will engage in an intensive distribution of Kingdom News No. 37. On weekends during the campaign, we will offer it along with the current magazines.

    2. Who Can Share: All who are actively publishing the good news will want to have a full share. Some will be able to auxiliary pioneer. Do you have children or Bible students who are making spiritual progress? Help them to approach the elders to see if they qualify as unbaptized publishers. Elders should take the initiative to speak with inactive publishers in order to encourage them to participate, perhaps, by working along with experienced publishers.

    3. A supply of Kingdom News No.7 is being sent to all congregations so that publisher and pioneers can obtain at least 50 copies. Interested ones who are not yet publishers may receive five copies to distribute to family members and friends. All should keep track of the number they place and note this on the back of their field service reports at the end of October and November. The secretary will tabulate the totals for the congregation and report it to the branch office at the end of each month. Any copies of the Kingdom News that are remaining after the campaign concludes may be used in any feature of the ministry.

    4. What to Say: Keep you presentation brief, as this will allow for a wider distribution of the message. You could say: “As a public service, I am sharing in an earth-wide distribution of this important message. This is your free copy. Please read it.” Be sure to keep a record of the interest found.

    5. How to Cover Your Territory: Rather then distribution the Kingdom News in the street work, focus on covering as much of your house-to-house and business territory as much as possible. Keep track of not-at-homes, and try to return at a different time or day of the week. Beginning Monday November 6, a copy may be left at not-at-homes. However, if the congregation has more territory than can be covered during the allotted time, the elders may determine that the Kingdom News should be left at not-at-homes during the entire campaign.

    6. The destruction of “Babylon the Great” is fast approaching. People need to get out of her before she is completely destroyed. (Rev. 14:8; 18:8) Make plans now to have a full share in this worldwide campaign to let all know that the end of false religion is near!

    Has anyone checked the U.S. tax laws for 2006? I wonder if this has anything to do with the religious tax repeal in Canada? Are they going to announce that they are not a religion but a public service group as they have done in Mexico to avoid taxation? Are they preparing themselves for a rehash of the 90's when they went to a donation bases on the rags to avoid taxes? Any thoughts?

  • undercover
    undercover
    6. The destruction of “Babylon the Great” is fast approaching. People need to get out of her before she is completely destroyed.

    Boy, that's flirting with making predictions again. You'd think they would have learned to stay away from making definitive statements like that.

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts
    The destruction of “Babylon the Great” is fast approaching

    BtG has died of old age.

    i think in the usa Public service groups are labled as charities.

  • daniel-p
    daniel-p

    Please, people. Stop titling threads "big announcement." It's getting really redundant.

  • BrendaCloutier
    BrendaCloutier

    With every new era since 1888 they need to continue the fear-mongering to get new publisher and retain the old.

    It does seem to be the shadow of 1975 all over again.

    Or to quote Yogi Berra "It's dejavu all over again!"

  • sinis
    sinis

    Besides the excerpt from the Kingdom Ministry, does anyone know if the changes to take place in the next month or so, that could affect the org (according to insider info presented in another thread), could be based not on org internal issues but mainstream / gov't issues that affect the org as a corp? Thus, my question on any possible taxation laws in the U.S. or recent laws inacted in Canada, France, etc. Perhaps, they may shift themselves from organized religion to a "foundation" where they are truely tax exempt on all properties, structural or otherwise.

  • Beep,Beep
    Beep,Beep

    ""As a public service, I am sharing in an earth-wide distribution of this important message.""

    ""Has anyone checked the U.S. tax laws for 2006? I wonder if this has anything to do with the religious tax repeal in Canada? Are they going to announce that they are not a religion but a public service group as they have done in Mexico to avoid taxation? Are they preparing themselves for a rehash of the 90's when they went to a donation bases on the rags to avoid taxes? Any thoughts?""

    Sorry but I have known pioneers and others who used this expression, "As a public service," years ago. Nothing new or earthshattering to me.

  • AlanF
    AlanF

    They've been doing this as far back as I can remember. I recall one such "big campaign" in the early 1970s. This is nothing but cheerleading for the JW troops.

    AlanF

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow
    Who Can Share: All who are actively publishing the good news will want to have a full share.

    Yeah, they'll have a share, but I doubt most of them will want it.

    Some will be able to auxiliary pioneer. Do you have children or Bible students who are making spiritual progress? Help them to approach the elders to see if they qualify as unbaptized publishers. Elders should take the initiative to speak with inactive publishers in order to encourage them to participate, perhaps, by working along with experienced publishers.

    They are really trying to rally the troops for this one. Get the whole cong out in fs, it'll do wonders for the annual report.

  • garybuss
    garybuss

    I think Alan's right. The doctrines can't change much. They have themselves painted into a corner on almost every subject. Time and science haven't been their friends. If they had a doctrine rabbit in the hat, do ya think they'd have popped him out rather than re-run the last year's worth of hyped hype.
    Nothing new at the assembly. That's a good time to prop up the troops with new doctrine, but nothing. Nothing new in the new book either. That'd be a good place to put some new teaching that could result in massive book sales, but nothing. They're trying to go into a gunfight with an empty gun.
    The end is near . . . again. That's it!

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